tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post8142253316363476163..comments2024-03-28T08:01:57.266-04:00Comments on EV Grieve: Demolition permits on file for historic 316 E. Third St.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-75898121252845663872011-11-07T22:04:12.301-05:002011-11-07T22:04:12.301-05:00I live across the street and I was hoping that liv...I live across the street and I was hoping that living this far east would save me from the noise of new condos going up. It is a really pretty building too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-65857313846773839622011-11-07T10:16:14.062-05:002011-11-07T10:16:14.062-05:00i used to live directly next door and cannot beliv...i used to live directly next door and cannot belive this beautiful house will be torn down. what a shame. and that the owners are on the community board. FOR SHAME Mr. Prisant. Couldn't you at least put a stipulation that the building cannot be demo'd after purchase??? instea, your listing is outright beckoning for the wrecking ball.<br />real classy exit you're making here. no, seriously. nice move.glammanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694390946037511355.post-28192091458009238582011-11-07T08:41:27.540-05:002011-11-07T08:41:27.540-05:00I'm from Schenectady, from the oldest part of ...I'm from Schenectady, from the oldest part of that little city, a neighborhood that got federal historic designation years ago. Most of the houses are 19th century homes, some go back further. One or two to the 17th century. 1835 would be considered a ripe age back there.<br /><br />The thing is, you can't even fix your roof without going in front of the historical commission. Want to replace the shutters because they're rotting? Not without permission, and not without getting your new shutters OKed by the committee. You can't even put up a fence around your front yard without getting the style and color approved.<br /><br />A couple of years ago, an old house on a not very remarkable block was literally falling down...at least one side of it, anyway. A local contractor bought the place for a song and wanted to tear it down. Little did he know that was simply impossible in that neighborhood. Instead, he got a partial grant from the historical commission and, doing the work personally, rebuilt the collapsing wall. As the story progressed, it turned out that one of the men who built the Merrimack steel-hulled ship in the 1850s lived there for a time.<br /><br />This is Schenectady, for God's sake. The butt of countless jokes in old movies, even in its heyday. But in New York City, the 'greatest city in the world', we destroy healthy, beautiful old buildings right and left to put up ugly glass pieces of crap that will be condemned as uninhabitable within 30 or 40 years.<br /><br />I don't get it.JMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09876016557456927299noreply@blogger.com